New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20
NOVEL y sEs OF PAPER.

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NOVEL USES OF PAPER. 81
The Thin Substance Taking the
Place of Wood for Many Purposes.
There are few things that can not be
made outSof paper. It's adaptability is
astonishing and the widest specula-
tons asssto its future are excusable
when we reflect upon the present ueses
Is this material As the delicate sub
stance can be made to serve for steel
or iron, it is not d, fficult to understand
how paper is for many purposes now
taking the place Of wood. Mention
was before made of new mill in
Sweden for the manufacture of paper
from moss. Paper Of different thick
nesses and pasteboard made of the
white moss have already been shown
the latter even in sheets three-q quarters
of an inch thick. It is as hard as wood.
and can be easily painted and polished
It has all the good qualities, but none
of the defects of wood. The paste
board can consequently be used for
door and window frames, architectural
ornaments, and all kinds of furniture.
Paper made from strong ibers, such
as linen, can, in fact, be compressed
into substance so hard that3it can not
be scratched. AS houses have been
made of this novel building material,
SO almost everything requisite to COM
plete and furnish a residence has since
been manufactured of paper. After
the Breslau freproof chimney, it is
quite possible, for instance, that cook
ing or heating stoves can be made of
similar materials. These paper stoves
are annealed-that is painted over
with composition which becomes part
of the paper, and is freproof. It is
said to be impossible to burn them out,
and they are much cheaper than iron
stoves. Bath-tubs and pots are made
in the same manner by COMPRISING
the paper made of linen fbers, and an
healing. The tubs, we are assured,
will last forever and never leak. Placed
on the fire they will not burn up, and
it is almost impossible to break or in
jure them. Our rooms can be foored
with this wonderfully accommodating
material, as proved by the indianapolis
skating-rink, before referred to in this
journal. 1t may here be mentioned
that cracks in floors, around the skirt
ing-board or other parts of room,
may be neatly and permanently filled
by-thoroughly soaking newspapers in
paste made Of one pound Of flour, three
quarts Of water, and a tablespoonful of
alum, thoroughly boiled and mixed.
The mixture will be about as putty,
and may be forced into the-crasks with
a caseknife. It will harden like papier-
mache.
Doors, which one would think were
polished mahogany but that they swing
so lightly, and are free from swelling,
cracking, or. warping, are composed
each of two thick paper boards, stamp
ed and moulded into panels and glued
together with glue and potash, and then
rolled through heavy rollers. These.
doors are first covered with a water
proof coating, then painted and var
nished and hung in the ordinary way.
Few persons can detect that they are
not made of wood, particularly when
used as sliding doors. Black walnut
IS said to be getting very scarce in this
country, but plcture-frames are now
made of paper, and colored like walnut,
and are SO perfecs that no one could
detect them without cutting them.
Paper-pulp glue. linseed Gil, and car
Donate of lime or whiting are mixed
together and heated into q thick cream,
which. on being allowed to cool, is run
into moulds and hardened.
DRAWN g-rooms can be set off by
handsome pianos manufactured from
paper-a French invention. A beau
tlful musical instrumant of this kind
has lately been an object of great curl
ositY to the 'connOisseurs and musical
savants of Paris. The entire case is
made ofcompressed paper to which is
given hard surface and a cream-white
brilliant polish. The legs and sides
are ornamented with arabesuues and
floral designs. The exterior and as
much of the interior as can be seen
when the instrument is open are COW
cred with wreaths and medallions
painted in miniature by some of
the leading artists of Paris. The tone
OF this instrument is said to be of ex-
cellent quality, though not loud. The
broken, alternating character of piano
music isreplaced by rich, full con-
tinuons roll. of sound, resembling some
what that of the organ. Only two of
these instruments have been made.
One is still on exhibitions; the other
has been sold to the duke. of Devon
shire - Chambers journal.
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